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Skin Allergies Found To Increase The Risk Of Leukemia

...ions protect against malignancies by enhancing the ability of the immune system to detect and eliminate malignant cells. Researchers say they found no link between later cancers and other allergic conditions, such as hay fever. However, since results did trend toward a higher leukemia risk among those with ...

Being Obese Increases Ones Risk Of A wrong Diagnosis During Medical Imaging

...recent study researchers say obesity can limit the ability and accuracy of imaging equipment scans, such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The number of problems with imaging overweight people nearly doubled from 0.10 percent to 0.19 percent in the past decade, which correlat...

Understanding The Harmful Effects Of Radiation Exposure

...ant dose-related response was observed in learning ability tests and logical reasoning tests. However, this response was not observed in spatial recognition tests. Researchers say young children who undergo computed tomography (CT) scans for minor head injuries may be at risk for adverse intellectual devel...

Hydrotherapy Could Be Effective For Osteoarthritis

...an those in the control group. Researchers say the ability to walk is extremely important in these patients because it allows them to increase and maintain independence while increasing muscle strength around affected joints. Patients in the gym group reported increased thigh muscle strength in both legs, w...

WHO hopes to wipe away Iodine deficiency diseases by 2005

...g to poor school performance, reduced intellectual ability and impaired work capacity. Iodine deficiency is seen in people who live away from the sea where the soil content is low in Iodine. WHO recommends universal salt iodization, namely the use of iodized salt for human and animal consumption, to preven...

New Compound Could Strengthen The Effect Of Chemotherapy

...to chemotherapeutics by blocking the cancer cell's ability to survive the damage caused by chemotherapeutic d...to evaluate the potential of this compound for its ability to improve conventional therapeutic treatment....

Arithmetic Skills Found To Diminish With Progression Of Alzheimer’s Disease

A new study finds Alzheimer’s patients lose the ability to do simple mathematical calculations as their di...rs conclude as Alzheimer’s disease progresses, the ability to do calculations declines. These findings suggest that loss of calculation abilities in Alzheimer’...

Two Sessions Of Exercise A Week Could Help Elderly Patients

...so increase their metabolic rate, as well as their ability to climb stairs....

A New Evaluation Tool That Could Predict Death Risk in Heart Patients

...ams per deciliter). Now that researchers have the ability to easily categorize patients by high and low mortality risk, they say that the new model may provide a more effective way to design clinical trials for evaluating heart failure therapies....

Sudden Stress Found To Mimic Heart Attack Symptoms

...tients show dramatic improvements in their hearts’ ability to pump blood within a few days and within two weeks, patients experience a full recovery. Thus researchers say their findings should help physicians distinguish between stress cardiomyopathy and heart attacks in order to be able to reassure patien...

More Treatment Options For Malaria

...study researchers say a simple drug might have the ability to save many lives. Most children who die of malaria// do not ever make it to a hospital. For children who do make it to the hospital, half of the deaths occur within the first day of admission. Most anti-malaria drugs are given by injection, making...

The Link Between Rheumatoid Arthritis And Heart Failure

...sk of heart failure, or a weakening of the heart's ability // to pump blood, compared to those without rheumatoid arthritis. Results of a recent study showed patients with rheumatoid arthritis are at an increased risk for heart failure soon after the onset of arthritis, and this risk continues throughout th...

Consumption Of Fish Could Reduce The Risk Of Dementia

... flexibility. Researchers thus conclude that the ability of dietary changes to reduce not only cardiovascular disease but also neurodegenerative disorders remains to be determined. However, this study finds there could be an association between dietary intake and the development of dementia....

Improving The Survival Of Lung Cancer Patients By Blocking The Effects Of Estrogen

... first study, fulvestrant, also blocked estrogen's ability to regulate lung cancer cell gene expression. Thus researchers say both of these studies clearly suggest that lung cancer cells respond to estrogen and that improving overall patient survival may be contingent upon identifying therapies that target ...

Diet and exercise can be a better option to control diabetes

...g medication. Type 2 diabetes reduces the body’s ability to store calories, resulting in high blood sugar count in the blood. The signs of such a kind of diabetes may remain dormant in adults for many years before the actual symptoms arise. Such a health condition is called glucose intolerance or prediabet...

Thinking Could Be Affected Due To Hormone Therapy

...r patients know AD may have some effects on mental ability hence they must be prepared to offer support during the treatment period....

Understanding The Link Between Hunger and Taste

...ers say hunger may be associated with an increased ability to taste. For the study researchers // studied 16 ...hey say hunger did not influence the participants’ ability to recognize bitter tastes. Researchers say, instinctively, sweet and salty tastes indicate edible s...

Dyslexia Gene Identified and Called "KIAA0319"

...rder as apparently complicated as impaired reading ability can be amenable to molecular genetic dissection," O' Donovan said. There maybe other genes and factors for the condition called dyslexia. Many parents and teachers are not aware of this condition that has been identified as the leading cause of lear...

Treating Latent Herpes With Licorice

... in the body. For the study researchers tested the ability of the licorice compound glycyrrhizic acid ( GA ) to kill cells infected with the latent form of the herpes virus that causes Kaposi sarcoma, a disease characterized by tumors under the skin’s surface that often afflicts people with HIV and AIDS. Re...

Cure For Persistent Oral Fungal Problem May Be Possible

...es. This cocktail thus may be able to increase the ability of the peptides to treat potential oral infections up to double their original power. One peptide called MUC7 12-mer, which occurs naturally in the human salivary mucin molecule is quite effective for treating oral fungal infections. Even active in...

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